22 January 2016
Today I get to speak with none other than the Head STEMette. I feel like I have been waiting all my life for this moment. I am the Head Patent Attorneyette, I tell her; we can do great things together. The STEMettes’ role in life is to encourage girlies to put down their handbags and take up Bunsen burners and Van der Graaf generators instead. And then they would like the resultant Scientistettes and Engineerettes to get proper, well-paid, well-respected jobs, for instance as patent attorneyettes, like I did before I gave up paid work and devoted my life to volunteering at CIPA meetings. The STEMettes think there should be more to a woman’s career than fighting for maternity leave, being on maternity leave and covering for someone else’s maternity leave. I say: there is going to be a Women in IP networking event; would you like to come along and tell us about the STEMettes? I say: we do not have Bunsen burners or Van der Graaf generators, largely because the women who end up in IP have sussed that there are less dangerous ways of making a living out of STEM qualifications. But, I say, we might be able to help you, for instance by talking to girlies about IP, and giving them work experience in places where it’s OK not to blow yourself up once a week, and mentoring them and being role models and generally inciting them to put down their handbags. Only, obviously I can’t be a role model myself, partly because I don’t have a handbag but mainly because we don’t want STEMettes turning into gin-drinking, straw-shedding numpties now do we? The Head STEMette says: We have an App for the girlies; we could link the App to the Women in IP event. I say: No, you’ve lost me there, what’s an App? She says It’s on your phone, like your music and your Twitter® feed. I say: There’s music on my phone??
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